Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solemnly, with due regard for the ears of competitors at the same table, the automen sketched in the dark picture. C. E. Wilson, white-thatched General Motors president, estimated that by Jan. 1 G.M. would have only 17% of the machine tools needed to turn out 50% of its prewar car production (the quota tentatively set by WPB). The rest of the tools are not even promised until next June 1. K. T. Keller, the chunky, soft-voiced boss of Chrysler Corp., deftly added some dark shading. "Before Chrysler can build its first car, it must clear...
Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany quits...
Alexander Knox and Geraldine Fitzgerald lend an earnest dignity to the roles of the President and Mrs. Wilson. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Senator Cabot Lodges breathes into every line the chill of his stern conviction. With fire and authenticity of representation, Marcel Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss...
...tone of power and importance about this production that few Hollywood spectacles achieve. Where emotionalism usually buries the theme, here martial music and gaudy effect drive it home, and one is never allowed to forget that genuine patriotism was defeated by selfish individualism. That is the only idea that "Wilson" tries to convey. It never goes all the way and becomes bald internationalist propaganda, because it was not intended...
Henry King's direction and Lamar Trotti's scenario are above average, but both dangerously approach the common flag-waving touch. It is the essentially accurate re-creation of history with successful balance of insight and showmanship that makes "Wilson" first-rate. It rests on its merits of candor and taste as a stirring epic of the United States...